Another Putin Disaster by THGRRI

Signym, kiki, see the Zs on the vehicles? Russian baby, their getting their asses kicked.

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Saturday, February 26, 2022 6:28 PM

The world is with you Ukraine

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Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:05 PM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Riho Terras is a member of the European parliament and former Chief of Defense of Estonia. He doesn't give a source for the document (obviously, I guess).

Riho Terras @RihoTerras tweeted:

Intel from a Ukrainian officer about a meeting in Putin’s lair in Urals. Oligarchs convened there so no one would flee. Putin is furious, he thought that the whole war would be easy and everything would be done in 1-4 days.

Russians didn’t have a tactical plan. The war costs about $20 bln/day. There are rockets for 3-4 days at most, they use them sparingly. They lack weapons, the Tula and 2 Rotenberg plants can’t physically fulfil the orders for weapons. Rifles and ammo are the most they can do.

The next Russian weapons can be produced in 3-4 months – if even that. They have no raw materials. What was previously supplied mainly from Slovenia, Finland and Germany is now cut off.

If Ukraine manages to hold the Russians off for 10 days, then the Russians will have to enter negotiations. Because they have no money, weapons, or resources. Nevertheless, they are indifferent about the sanctions.

Alpha Spec Ops have been near Kyiv since the 18th February. The goal was to take Kyiv and instal a puppet regime. They are preparing provocations against innocent civilians – women and children – to sow panic. This is their trump card.

Russia’s whole plan relies on panic – that the civilians and armed forces surrender and Zelensky flees. They expect Kharkiv to surrender first so the other cities would follow suit to avoid bloodshed. The Russians are in shock of the fierce resistance they have encountered.

The Ukrainians must avoid panic! The missile strikes are for intimidation, the Russians fire them at random to “accidentally” hit residential buildings to make the attack look larger than it really is. Ukraine must stay strong and we must provide assistance! #StandWithUkraine

Spread this information so the world would realise how important it is to assist Ukraine right now and without hesitation! It is difficult for Russia, but it is difficult for Ukraine as well if the West does not provide meaningful support!

5:41 AM · Feb 26, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/RihoTerras/status/1497537193346220038

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:18 PM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Famous Republicans doing Pro-Putin Propaganda:

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1497317331877441539

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:26 PM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

"Trump is absolutely to blame for Russia’s Ukraine invasion. Trump’s decision to withhold the badly-needed military aid to Ukraine, unless they investigated Biden, hurt the country’s ability to defend itself— and emboldened Putin. It’s because of Trump’s corruption that we have a less capable, less prepared Ukraine."
- LT. COL. ALEXANDER VINDMAN,
Former director of European affairs on Trump’s National Security Council

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7n9dq/alexander-vindman-russia-ukrain
e-invasion

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:35 PM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Another famous Republican is pro-Putin.

Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza tweeted:
The Biden Democrats say we have to choose. Either we are for them or we are against them. Okay, then, we are AGAINST. Moreover, I’ll go further and say they pose a far greater threat to our freedom and safety than #Putin. He’s the lesser evil. They are the greater one #Ukraine
5:51 PM • Feb 24, 2022 • Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1496996150624370694

I hope whatever D’Souza got in exchange for his soul was worth it.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:49 PM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Eight Republicans pick the worst possible place to celebrate July 4 -- in Moscow

“What does July 4th mean to me? Freedom,” Sen. Ron Johnson chirruped on Twitter on Independence Day.

For the Wisconsin Republican, it meant, specifically, the freedom to spend July 4 in Moscow with seven other Republican lawmakers posing for propaganda photos with Russian officials. On the same day it was reported in Britain that two more people had been poisoned by a Russian nerve agent British officials say came from Vladimir Putin’s regime. On the day after the Senate Intelligence Committee affirmed the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump.

Johnson and his colleagues apparently exercised their freedom not to meet with opposition or civil society figures (those whom the Putin regime has not imprisoned or killed), avoiding the risk of offending their hosts. They also exercised their freedom to soft-pedal their criticism of the Russian government, leading Russian politicians and state media to mock them as supplicants.

Yet despite this lavish display of the freedom to kowtow, they didn’t get the meeting they hoped for with Putin himself. He was busy, the Kremlin said.

There was a time, in the pre-Trump era, when Republicans would have erupted in fireworks over an Independence Day visit by submissive American lawmakers to the country the 2012 Republican presidential nominee called “our number one geopolitical foe.” (Relations have worsened considerably since then.) They called Jane Fonda “Hanoi Jane” and a traitor when she went to North Vietnam in 1972. After Democrats visited Iraq in 2002, Republicans ridiculed them as “Baghdad boys.”

So, what do we call these Red Square Republicans? My interlocutors on Twitter suggest “Moscow Mules.” Or, given the position they put themselves in before our masters in Moscow, perhaps they should be called the Prostrate Eight: Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Hoeven (N.D.), John Neely Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) and Johnson, plus Rep. Kay Granger (Tex.).

Their excellent adventure included a ballet performance of “Sleeping Beauty,” and fairy-tale notions pervaded their official meetings, too. “I’m not here today to accuse Russia of this or that or so forth,” Shelby told Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. “I’m saying that we should all strive for a better relationship.”

Yes, let us strive for camaraderie with a government that attacks us with cyberwarfare, meddles in our elections, denies entry to American officials who are critical of Moscow, destabilizes Europe and the Middle East, kills critics at home and abroad, occupies its neighbors’ land and shoots down the occasional passenger jet. Or, as Shelby put it, “this, that or so forth.”

One can hardly wait to see the lawmakers’ next codel: meeting with wounded Taliban fighters on Veterans Day? A Memorial Day wreath-laying for fallen members of Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard? Flag Day at a street protest in Tehran?

Soon they’ll be meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and praising him as talented, honest and trustworthy. Oh, wait.

“I asked our friends in Russia not to interfere in our elections this year,” one of the Moscow Mules, Kennedy, said after their meetings. “I asked them to exit Ukraine and allow Ukraine to self-determine. I asked for the same thing in Crimea. I asked for their help in bringing peace to Syria. And I asked them not to allow Iran to gain a foothold in Syria.”

Apparently he didn’t say “pretty please with a cherry on top,” because the Russians were dismissive of the Americans’ pleading.

Duma member Vyacheslav Nikonov said that of the many meetings he has had with American lawmakers, this “was one of the easiest ones in my life,” The Post’s Anton Troianovski reports.

The Post’s Karoun Demirjian reports that state television in Russia mocked the meek Americans. One Russian military expert said, “We need to look down at them and say: You came because you needed to, not because we did.”

Sergey Kislyak, Russian legislator and former ambassador to Washington, dismissed the Prostrate Eight’s message as “things we’d heard before,” and said “our guests heard rather clearly and distinctly” Russia’s denial that it interfered in U.S. elections.

They hardly needed to go to Moscow for that, though, because Trump himself tweeted last week: “Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election!”

This came after Trump pushed for Russia to be readmitted to the Group of Seven, and in advance of the July 16 Putin-Trump meeting in Helsinki that an Esquire writer called Trump’s “annual performance review.”

“Happy 4th of July!” Shelby, leader of the Moscow Mules, tweeted from Russia. “We are the land of the free because of the brave.”

And what is more courageous than visiting your foe on the Fourth of July and shrinking from accusations of this or that or so forth?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4
-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, February 26, 2022 9:11 PM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

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Putin urged Ukrainian soldiers to seize power from their civilian leaders — a democratically elected government Putin derided as “a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis who’ve holed up in Kyiv and taken the entire Ukrainian nation hostage.”

Putin’s dark rhetoric about a government led by a Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who was elected in a landslide in 2019, is plainly delusional, but it was echoed that night on the state television channels that give him a stranglehold over Russia’s airwaves.

In contrast to Putin telling crazy lies from a TV studio far from the fighting, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was standing in an instantly recognizable location, outside the president’s office on Bankova Street in central Kyiv, flanked by his closest advisers. Zelensky spoke calmly into his phone.

“Good evening everyone. The leader of the party is here,” Zelensky said, showing Davyd Arakhamia, who leads the president’s political party, Servant of the People. “The head of the presidential office is here,” he said, of Andriy Yermak, an adviser who tried to fend off demands from Rudy Giuliani for Zelensky to open sham investigations into Joe Biden in 2019, as then-President Donald Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine.

After noting that his prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, and another adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, were also there, Zelensky brought the phone back to himself and said, “The president is here.”

“We are all here. Our soldiers are here. The citizens of our country are here,” Zelensky said. “We are all here protecting our independence, our country, and it will continue to be this way. Glory to our defenders. Glory to our heroes. Glory to Ukraine.”

More at https://theintercept.com/2022/02/25/putin-floods-airwaves-lies-zelensk
y-punctures-social-media/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

That video will live in infamy. One of the most understated yet impactful videos ever made.

Putin4brains doesn’t realize how small/connected the world is now. Everyone is watching.

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Saturday, February 26, 2022 9:46 PM

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Putin urged Ukrainian soldiers to seize power from their civilian leaders — a democratically elected government Putin derided as “a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis who’ve holed up in Kyiv and taken the entire Ukrainian nation hostage.”

Putin’s dark rhetoric about a government led by a Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who was elected in a landslide in 2019, is plainly delusional, but it was echoed that night on the state television channels that give him a stranglehold over Russia’s airwaves.

In contrast to Putin telling crazy lies from a TV studio far from the fighting, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was standing in an instantly recognizable location, outside the president’s office on Bankova Street in central Kyiv, flanked by his closest advisers. Zelensky spoke calmly into his phone.

“Good evening everyone. The leader of the party is here,” Zelensky said, showing Davyd Arakhamia, who leads the president’s political party, Servant of the People. “The head of the presidential office is here,” he said, of Andriy Yermak, an adviser who tried to fend off demands from Rudy Giuliani for Zelensky to open sham investigations into Joe Biden in 2019, as then-President Donald Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine.

After noting that his prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, and another adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, were also there, Zelensky brought the phone back to himself and said, “The president is here.”

“We are all here. Our soldiers are here. The citizens of our country are here,” Zelensky said. “We are all here protecting our independence, our country, and it will continue to be this way. Glory to our defenders. Glory to our heroes. Glory to Ukraine.”

More at https://theintercept.com/2022/02/25/putin-floods-airwaves-lies-zelensk
y-punctures-social-media/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

That video will live in infamy. One of the most understated yet impactful videos ever made.

Putin4brains doesn’t realize how small/connected the world is now. Everyone is watching.

I really hope this guy survives this.

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Sunday, February 27, 2022 1:22 PM

BP cutting ties with Russia even though it will cost them billions, huge.

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Sunday, February 27, 2022 3:36 PM

I've heard Putin has changed the established world order. Yes, he has and it's for the better. The world has come together in an unprecedented way and decided never again. They are bitch slapping Putin from every direction. Their message to Putin, common my pretty.

I can't empathize it enough that China is watching and seeing what happens when you attack your neighbors unprovoked.

It's huge...

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Sunday, February 27, 2022 3:48 PM

Signym kiki say it ain't so

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Russian War In Ukraine - Heavy Clashes In Kharkiv • Russian Vehicles Abandoned Afer Ambush

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Sunday, February 27, 2022 3:53 PM

Ukraine War - Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 Drones Destroy Russian Convoys

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Sunday, February 27, 2022 5:15 PM

Thanks Puty

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Scholz pledges €100 billion for German military, end to Russian energy exports

A turning point in the history of our continent. That's how Chancellor Olaf Scholz described Russia's war against Ukraine. Speaking to a special session of parliament, the German leader announced a raft of policy changes that would have been unthinkable just days ago. Germany will drastically strengthen its military and move quickly to eliminate its reliance on Russian energy exports. He put the blame squarely on Russian President Vladimir Putin - who he said had brought decades of peaceful coexistence to an end. Here's some of what he said.

Holding out in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Russia's military assault verges on genocide - and he's called for Russia to be stripped of its seat on the UN Security Council. Moscow's forces targeted civilian infrastructure overnight, including gas pipelines - as they stepped up efforts to push further into Ukraine.

Moscow's forces have met stiff resistance as they attempt to push further into Ukraine. The mayor of Kyiv says the capital is holding its defense lines and there are no Russian troops in the city. And after reports of heavy fighting in eastern Kharkiv, the regional governor says Ukrainian forces have retaken full control of the city. Russia's latest attacks have targeted civilian infrastructure and the military.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sent tens of thousands of people fleeing their homes since Thursday. Huge crowds have been waiting at train stations to travel to the border and cross into neighboring countries. Scenes from Lviv in western Ukraine show the fear and frustration: There's not enough space on the trains to carry everyone to safety. Men are forced to say goodbye to their families, as they are not allowed to leave because they've been called up to fight. Many of the refugees are headed to Poland.

Ukraine is doing its best to repel the Russian attack by training civilians to fight. Support from the US and other NATO members has also bolstered national defenses. But few believe Ukraine is a match for its much larger neighbor.

Taking active and reserve troops together, Kyiv can draw on more than 1 million men and women. Russia has more than three million. Ukraine has less than 2,500 tanks, compared to Russia's 13,000.

And in the air, Ukraine has just 67 attack aircraft in contrast to Russia's 1,500.

In Berlin a demonstration calling for restoring peace in Ukraine is underway, with estimates of 20,000 or more people taking part in the protest.

The demonstration is organized by a variety of groups including workers' unions, religious groups and environmental organizations. Protesters are calling on Russia to immediately withdraw from Ukraine and to respect democracy and human rights. In the past days there have been numerous demonstrations across the world in support of Ukraine and demanding an immediate end to all violence.

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Sunday, February 27, 2022 5:30 PM

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25th of Feb

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Sunday, February 27, 2022 5:48 PM

Thousands Of Georgians Protest Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine

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Sunday, February 27, 2022 6:21 PM

‘Sign of weakness’: Ex-CIA director on Putin’s move

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Sunday, February 27, 2022 6:54 PM

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Sunday, February 27, 2022 8:32 PM

Ted's been looking forward to this for years.

He's never jacked off so much in one day before.

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Monday, February 28, 2022 10:25 AM

Former CIA director: 'It’s going abysmally' for Putin

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:38 PM

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Originally posted by THGRRI: First posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:20 PM It is the first post of the thread. Go figure aye Signym.

EU's Antitrust Charge Against Gazprom: Another Putin Disaster

"The trashing of Russia’s most valuable economic asset adds to Putin’s growing list of major policy disasters. By attacking Ukraine, he has alienated the Ukrainian people for generations to come. By saber rattling beyond the borders of Ukraine, he has rejuvenated NATO and given it new purpose. Putin has succeeded in pushing traditional sympathizers in the European community, such as Germany’s foreign minister; they’ve decided that the danger he poses trumps their business interests. Instead of raising Russia’s prestige and national pride, he has turned the country into a pariah state with a tottering economy and declining living standards."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2015/04/20/eus-antitru
st-charge-against-gazprom-another-putin-disaster/]

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 2:07 PM

Ted might be the only person left keeping CNN from dying off.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 2:40 PM

Microsoft says cyberattacks targeting Ukraine 'raise serious concerns' under Geneva Convention

As hacking by nation-states has grown more pervasive in recent years, Microsoft has long called for the creation of a new Geneva Convention governing cyberspace.

But now, for the first time, the tech giant appears to be suggesting that cyberattacks tied to the war in Ukraine could potentially be considered war crimes under existing international law.

On Monday, Microsoft (MSFT) said that in the hours leading up to Russia's invasion, it detected a new form of "offensive and destructive" software targeting Ukrainian institutions. Microsoft also said it has observed a barrage of cyberattacks zeroing in on Ukraine's agricultural, commercial, finance and energy sectors.

"These attacks on civilian targets raise serious concerns under the Geneva Convention, and we have shared information with the Ukrainian government about each of them," wrote Microsoft president Brad Smith in a blog post.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/microsoft-says-cyberattacks-ta
rgeting-ukraine-raise-serious-concerns-under-geneva-convention/ar-AAUtiOf?ocid=msedgntp

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 2:43 PM

World's biggest shipping company suspends container shipments to and from Russia

Maersk will pause Russian shipments in the wake of the country's invasion and Western sanctions.The suspension will apply to all goods except food, medical supplies and humanitarian equipment.

The shipping giant said it was already starting to see operational delays in the global supply chain.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/world-s-biggest-shipping-company-
suspends-container-shipments-to-and-from-russia/ar-AAUsYyd?ocid=msedgntp

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 2:48 PM

OnlyFans won't let sex workers from Russia make any money online anymore.

How very Liberal of you, Leftist ran OnlyFans.

In a country that already had it rough, they're seeing inflation at almost 50% and now you cut off the only source of income a not small amount of Russian women who have absolutely no responsibility for or personal stake in current events had.

Good job. Keep being the "good guys" everyone.

Pats on the back all around.

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 2:50 PM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Will Only Make It Weaker

Why conquest makes the conqueror weaker.

The Ukrainian miracle may not last. Vladimir Putin’s attempt to win a quick victory on the cheap, seizing major cities with relatively light forces, has faced major resistance, but the tanks and big guns are moving up. And despite the incredible heroism of Ukraine’s people, it’s still more likely than not that the Russian flag will eventually be planted amid the rubble of Kyiv and Kharkiv.

But even if that happens, the Russian Federation will be left weaker and poorer than it was before the invasion. Conquest doesn’t pay.

Why not? If you go back in history, there are plenty of examples of powers that enriched themselves through military prowess. The Romans surely profited from the conquest of the Hellenistic world, as did Spain from the conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas.

But the modern world is different — where by “modern,” I mean at least the past century and a half.

The British author Norman Angell published his famous tract “The Great Illusion” in 1909, arguing that war had become obsolete. His book was widely misinterpreted as saying that war could no longer happen, a proposition proved horribly wrong over the next two generations. What Angell actually said was that even the victors in war could no longer derive any profit from their success.

And he was surely right about that. We’re all thankful that the Allies prevailed in World War II, but Britain emerged as a diminished power, suffering through years of austerity as it struggled to overcome a shortage of foreign exchange. Even the United States had a harder postwar adjustment than many realize, experiencing a bout of price increases that for a time pushed inflation above 20 percent.

And conversely, even utter defeat didn’t prevent Germany and Japan from eventually achieving unprecedented prosperity.

Why and when did conquest become unprofitable? Angell argued that everything changed with the rise of a “vital interdependence” among nations, “cutting athwart international frontiers,” which he suggested was “largely the work of the past forty years” — beginning around 1870. That seems like a fair guess: 1870 was roughly when railroads, steamships and telegraphs made possible the creation of what some economists call the first global economy.

In such a global economy, it’s hard to conquer another country without cutting that country — and yourself — off from the international division of labor, not to mention the international financial system, at great cost. We can see that dynamic happening to Russia as we speak.

Angell also emphasized the limits to confiscation in a modern economy: You can’t just seize industrial assets the way preindustrial conquerors could seize land, because arbitrary confiscation destroys the incentives and sense of security an advanced society needs to stay productive. Again, history vindicated his analysis. For a while, Nazi Germany occupied nations with a combined prewar gross domestic product roughly twice its own — but despite ruthless exploitation, the occupied territories seem to have paid for only about 30 percent of the German war effort, in part because many of the economies Germany tried to exploit collapsed under the burden.

An aside: Isn’t it extraordinary and horrible to find ourselves in a situation where Hitler’s economic failures tell us useful things about future prospects? But that’s where we are. Thanks, Putin.

I’d add two more factors that explain why conquest is futile.

The first is that modern war uses an incredible amount of resources. Pre-modern armies used limited amounts of ammunition and could, to some extent, live off the land. As late as 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman could cut loose from his supply lines and march across Georgia carrying only 20 days’ worth of rations. But modern armies require huge amounts of ammunition, replacement parts and, above all, fuel for their vehicles. Indeed, the latest assessment from Britain’s Ministry of Defense says that the Russian advance on Kyiv has temporarily stalled “probably as a result of continuing logistical difficulties.” What this means for would-be conquerors is that conquest, even if successful, is extremely expensive, making it even less likely that it can ever pay.

Second, we now live in a world of passionate nationalism. Ancient and medieval peasants probably didn’t care who was exploiting them; modern workers do. Putin’s attempt to seize Ukraine appears to be predicated not just on his belief that there is no such thing as a Ukrainian nation, but also on the assumption that the Ukrainians themselves can be persuaded to consider themselves Russians. That seems very unlikely to happen, so even if Kyiv and other major cities fall, Russia will find itself spending years trying to hold down a hostile population.

So conquest is a losing proposition. This has been true for at least a century and a half; it has been obvious to anyone willing to look at the facts for more than a century. Unfortunately, there are still madmen and fanatics who refuse to believe this — and some of them control nations and armies.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220301174154/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/03/01/opinion/ukraine-russia-war-economy.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 2:56 PM

My only response to that post is good on you for giving an archived link and not generating any ad revenue for NYT propaganda and lies.

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 3:12 PM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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My only response to that post is good on you for giving an archived link and not generating any ad revenue for NYT propaganda and lies.

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OnlyFans won't let sex workers from Russia make any money online anymore.

How very Liberal of you, Leftist ran OnlyFans.

In a country that already had it rough, they're seeing inflation at almost 50% and now you cut off the only source of income a not small amount of Russian women who have absolutely no responsibility for or personal stake in current events had.

Good job. Keep being the "good guys" everyone.

Pats on the back all around.

6ix, you misunderstood, which I find unsurprising:

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 3:16 PM

New western sanctions are isolating Putin, devastating Russian economy

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 3:20 PM

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My only response to that post is good on you for giving an archived link and not generating any ad revenue for NYT propaganda and lies.

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OnlyFans won't let sex workers from Russia make any money online anymore.

How very Liberal of you, Leftist ran OnlyFans.

In a country that already had it rough, they're seeing inflation at almost 50% and now you cut off the only source of income a not small amount of Russian women who have absolutely no responsibility for or personal stake in current events had.

Good job. Keep being the "good guys" everyone.

Pats on the back all around.
6ix, you misunderstood, which I find unsurprising:

On Sunday evening, OnlyFans said it had been able to restore account activity for creators in all countries. “Their accounts will have full functionalities as long as we continue to have payment methods to support them,” the spokesperson said. “We were not terminating or suspending any creator accounts based on the creator’s location, and we are doing everything we can to support our community.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/onlyfans-russia-puti
n-ukraine-invasion-1313259/

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lol

OK. An article from Leftist shill magazine Rolling Stone.

If they are giving the Russian women their accounts back, it's only because they received the correct amount of blowback they should have for doing what they did.

This is just more evidence of the death of Cancel Culture.

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Friday, March 4, 2022 4:18 AM

Holy shit, the Russians can't shoot straight. And they certainly can't plan out an invasion. They are completely incompetent, bungling unskilled fools. Comrade Signym, you’ve been totally wrong all these years when posting again and again how they were the best fighting force on the planet. Wow were you mistaken. It's all that propaganda you suck up.

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Friday, March 4, 2022 5:54 AM

How dangerous was Russia's nuclear plant strike?

BANGKOK (AP) — Europe's largest nuclear power plant was hit by Russian shelling early Friday, sparking a fire and raising fears of a disaster that could affect all of central Europe for decades, like the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/explainer-how-dangerous-was-russi
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Friday, March 4, 2022 1:16 PM

Photo of Jewish Ukrainian With Machine Gun Goes Viral: 'Shalom Kyiv!'

An image of a Jewish man holding a machine gun has been widely shared on social media as a defiant riposte to the claim by Vladimir Putin that his forces were engaged in the "denazification" of Ukraine.

https://www.bing.com/images/blob?bcid=ToEiUqkPc-QDegSx1X.0dyJwqjcv....
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/photo-of-jewish-ukrainian-with-ma
chine-gun-goes-viral-shalom-kyiv/ar-AAUCm2z?ocid=msedgntp

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General McCaffrey: Putin Just Signed Up For A ‘Ten Year Event’

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General McCaffrey: Putin Just Signed Up For A ‘Ten Year Event’

Just what we fuckin needed.

Democrats are war mongering cancer.

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Saturday, March 5, 2022 11:15 AM

Ukrainian official tells 'Mothers of Russia, come to Kiev and take your sons' while releasing a list of captured Russian prisoners

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukrainian-official-tells-mothers-
of-russia-come-to-kiev-and-take-your-sons-while-releasing-a-list-of-captured-russian-prisoners/ar-AAUEfNL?ocid=msedgntp

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Saturday, March 5, 2022 12:33 PM

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Putin announced today that he is a James Bond movie Supervillain

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that any country that sought to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine would be considered by Moscow to have entered the conflict.

Putin added that imposing a no-fly zone would have “colossal and catastrophic consequences not only for Europe but also the whole world.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-fly-zone-would-be-world-catastrophe-w
arns-putin-after-nato-spurns-zelensky-plea/

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Saturday, March 5, 2022 5:21 PM

Last surviving Nuremberg Trials prosecutor: Putin should be 'behind bars'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/last-surviving-nuremberg-trials-p
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Monday, March 7, 2022 10:34 AM

Zelensky says Russian forces are 'tired' and 'demoralized' as he spoke about the future of Ukraine after its 'victory' in war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that Russian troops attacking his country are "tired" and "demoralized" as he gave hope to the future of Ukraine, saying it will take "victory" in the war.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/zelensky-says-russian-forces-are-
tired-and-demoralized-as-he-spoke-about-the-future-of-ukraine-after-its-victory-in-war/ar-AAUJDWA?ocid=msedgntp

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Monday, March 7, 2022 10:57 AM

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I was looking for reviews of violent movies where the underdog, Ukraine, eventually triumphs. Maybe the reviews will give insight about what is going on inside Putin's brain? I found that movie. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is in the role Dustin Hoffman played in Straw Dogs (1971) and Putin is all the actors that end up dead-dead-dead, assuming the Ukraine/Russia War has a suitable ending for Hollywood:

Paul D. Zimmerman of Newsweek stated, "It is hard to imagine that Sam Peckinpah will ever make a better movie than Straw Dogs. It flawlessly expresses his primitive vision of violence — his belief that manhood requires rites of violence, that home and hearth are inviolate and must be defended by blood, that a man must conquer other men to prove his courage and hold on to his woman."

Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and wrote that even though he disagreed with Peckinpah's apparent worldview that "Man is an animal, and his passion for destroying his own kind lies just beneath his skin," it was nevertheless "a superbly made movie. Peckinpah creates a mood of impending violence with great skill."

Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called it "an overpowering piece of storytelling, certain to remind every viewer of the wells of primal emotion lurking within himself, beneath the fragile veneer of civilized control. It is, I think, a better picture than 'The Wild Bunch,' less ritualistic and less appallingly graphic in its violence, and in fact less cynical."

Among later assessments, Entertainment Weekly in 1997 wrote that the contemporary interpretation was that of a "serious exploration of humanity's ambivalent relationship with the dark side", but it now seems an "exploitation bloodbath".

Nick Schager of Slant Magazine rated it four out of four stars and wrote, "Sitting through Peckinpah's controversial classic is not unlike watching a lit fuse make its slow, inexorable way toward its combustible destination — the taut build-up is as shocking and vicious as its fiery conclusion is inevitable."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Dogs_(1971_film)#Critical_response

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Do you ever get the feeling that Putin is a creature that only Hollywood could invent? That he is a villain for James Bond to kill? Putin did threaten to nuke any country that imposed a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Threats such as that are exactly what scriptwriters use to make sure that even the dumbest person in the theater understands who the supervillain is and why they have to die. Too bad that reality isn't as fast as a movie. In "No Time to Die", Bond kills Safin in under two hours.

It is very apparent that the news media and UN hasn't grasped just how crazy and evil Putin is, but then again, Trump's absolute insanity wasn't grasped either. I guess being professionally neutral makes it impossible for the media to tell the extremely unsubtle differences between sane and dangerously crazy people.

Those two guys, Putin and Trump, will be running freely around, making evil plots, for many more years, mostly because people reading mainstream media can NOT make up their minds about those two. In contrast, a Hollywood movie would make it very clear who is evil and deserves death.

No Time To Die: Why Rami Malek Falls Short as a Bond Villain

Daniel Craig's James Bond send-off, No Time To Die, introduced Rami Malek as the villainous Safin, but here's why his portrayal falls short.

https://www.cbr.com/no-time-to-die-safin-falls-short-bond-villain/

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Do you ever get the feeling that Putin is a creature that only Hollywood could invent? That he is a villain for James Bond to kill? Putin did threaten to nuke any country that imposed a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Threats such as that are exactly what scriptwriters use to make sure that even the dumbest person in the theater understands who the supervillain is and why they have to die. Too bad that reality isn't as fast as a movie. In "No Time to Die", Bond kills Safin in under two hours.

It is very apparent that the news media and UN hasn't grasped just how crazy and evil Putin is, but then again, Trump's absolute insanity wasn't grasped either. I guess being professionally neutral makes it impossible for the media to tell the extremely unsubtle differences between sane and dangerously crazy people.

Those two guys, Putin and Trump, will be running freely around, making evil plots, for many more years, mostly because people reading mainstream media can NOT make up their minds about those two. In contrast, a Hollywood movie would make it very clear who is evil and deserves death.

No Time To Die: Why Rami Malek Falls Short as a Bond Villain

Daniel Craig's James Bond send-off, No Time To Die, introduced Rami Malek as the villainous Safin, but here's why his portrayal falls short.

https://www.cbr.com/no-time-to-die-safin-falls-short-bond-villain/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Movies scripts that are developed come from the realm of our imaginations. This abomination of Putins fits within that realm. It’s just so horrific most refuse to believe something like this could happen until it does.

The Ukrainian people are a good example of this. Many say they just didn’t believe Putin would do something like this. These same people should learn the definition of sadist, psychopath, an unstable and aggressive person. Anybody who would and could lead the way dictators lead, are sick.

And those who shill for them, a swindler who acts as an enthusiastic customer to entice or encourage others, like sig and kiki are sick as well.

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Monday, March 7, 2022 1:29 PM

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Movies scripts that are developed come from the realm of our imaginations. This abomination of Putins fits within that realm. It’s just so horrific most refuse to believe something like this could happen until it does.

The Ukrainian people are a good example of this. Many say they just didn’t believe Putin would do something like this. These same people should learn the definition of sadist, psychopath, an unstable and aggressive person. Anybody who would and could lead the way dictators lead, are sick.

And those who shill for them, a swindler who acts as an enthusiastic customer to entice or encourage others, like sig and kiki are sick as well.

T

The optimistic stories people believe are what get them into trouble. In contrast, I tell stories about the worst that can happen, and prepare for the worst by always buckling my seat-belt (car crash is the worst) and being vaccinated (internal organ failure is the worst), which is how I avoid the worst consequences happening.

If EU and USA tell themselves optimistic stories that things will go back to normal, they are doubling their troubles. Instead, they and Putin should tell themselves pessimistic and unhappy stories such as this one from Foreign Affairs:

What If Russia Loses?
A Defeat for Moscow Won’t Be a Clear Victory for the West

Had the government fallen quickly, Putin could have claimed that he was right all along: because Ukraine had not been willing or able to defend itself, it was not a real country—just like he had said.

But Putin will be unable to win this war on his preferred terms. Indeed, there are several ways in which he could ultimately lose. He could mire his military in a costly and futile occupation of Ukraine, decimating the morale of Russia’s soldiers, consuming resources, and delivering nothing in return but the hollow ring of Russian greatness and a neighboring country reduced to poverty and chaos. He could create some degree of control over parts of eastern and southern Ukraine and probably Kyiv, while fighting a Ukrainian insurgency operating from the west and engaged in guerrilla warfare across the country—a scenario that would be reminiscent of the partisan warfare that took place in Ukraine during World War II. At the same time, he would preside over the gradual economic degradation of Russia, its growing isolation, and its increasing inability to supply the wealth on which great powers rely. And, most consequentially, Putin could lose the support of the Russian people and elites, on whom he depends to prosecute the war and maintain his hold on power, even though Russia is not a democracy.

In this war, there are no winners

Putin is unlikely to lose the war in Ukraine on the battlefield. But he could lose when the fighting mostly ends and the question becomes, What now? The unintended and underestimated consequences of this senseless war will be difficult for Russia to stomach. And the lack of political planning for the day after—comparable to the planning failures of the U.S. invasion of Iraq—will do its part to make this an unwinnable war.

Ukraine will not be able to turn back the Russian military on Ukrainian soil. The Russian military is in another league from that of Ukraine, and Russia is of course a nuclear power, whereas Ukraine is not. So far the Ukrainian military has fought with admirable determination and skill, but the real obstacle to Russian advances has been the nature of the war itself. Through aerial bombardment and missile attacks, Russia could level the cities of Ukraine, thereby achieving dominance over the battle space. It could try a small-scale use of nuclear weapons to the same effect. Should Putin make this decision, there is nothing in the Russian system that could stop him. “They made a desert,” the Roman historian Tacitus wrote of Rome's warfare tactics, attributing the words to the British war leader Calgacus, “and called it peace.” That is an option for Putin in Ukraine.

More at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-03-04/what-if-rus
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You say you always tell stories with the worst possible outcomes SECOND. Yes, I’ve noticed that. Your posts on current events also reflect that philosophy. Not all real-life existential happenings end badly. So, it is possible your analysis maybe mistaken at times because you are predisposed to see things negatively. That would certainly influence someones’ search patterns.

One thing that comes across is your complete understanding of right and wrong. And you always, are unquestionably on the side of right.

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You say you always tell stories with the worst possible outcomes SECOND. Yes, I’ve noticed that.
T

Here is Putin's article, written before the invasion, about his glorious victory. Truly, the man is pathologically optimistic. Trump is same way, always declaring victory.

https:// www. youtube.com/post/Ugkx38sXqq5a28LipXZMn6WX0qB1bNXCfc65

Russia bragging that it won in Ukraine:

Ria Novosti accidentally published their intended "victory article" a few days ago, for when Russia annexes Ukraine. They quickly deleted it upon realizing the mistake, but as always, people caught it in time. Below I'm pasting the full article for your enjoyment.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20220226/ros
siya-1775162336.html

A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia's military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era - and in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system - but this is worth talking about separately a little later.

Russia is restoring its unity - the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together - in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land.

Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia - for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia from Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them.

The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation - when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kiev), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that "only Ukraine is the real Russia," or to gnash one's teeth helplessly, remembering the times when "we lost Ukraine." Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade - recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum.

Now this problem is gone - Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state of part of the Russian world. In what borders, in what form will the alliance with Russia be fixed (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus )? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end.

And here begins the second dimension of the coming new era - it concerns Russia's relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in geopolitical terms as a single whole. These relations have entered a new stage - the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe . And he is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul he must admit to himself that it could not be otherwise.

Did someone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin , seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kiev ? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which happened according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, one had to be just geopolitical fools.

More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. But the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. And already fifteen years ago, after Putin's Munich speech, even the deaf could hear - Russia is returning.

Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. But this has not been the case for a long time - the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. But for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs - and the main ones are not at all economic.

Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy - the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Yes, and it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. But Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving.

But the confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chance of independence - not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China . If now the Atlanticists are happy that the "Russian threat" will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders - realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose century (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case - but various options for its future are still possible.

Because the construction of a new world order - and this is the third dimension of current events - is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. A multipolar world has finally become a reality - the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well - this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia's return of its historical space and its place in the world.

China and India , Latin America and Africa , the Islamic world and Southeast Asia - no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) - but not on its terms and not according to its rules.

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One thing that comes across is your complete understanding of right and wrong. And you always, are unquestionably on the side of right.

So you agree that everyone should kill their bosses and take everything they own, do you?

This post tells us everything we need to know about you, Ted.

You never fail to re-earn your nickname, Mr. Bundy.

You really ought to stop dealing in absolutes with everything. It will get you into trouble.

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So you agree that everyone should kill their bosses and take everything they own, do you?

This post tells us everything we need to know about you, Ted.

You never fail to re-earn your nickname, Mr. Bundy.

You really ought to stop dealing in absolutes with everything. It will get you into trouble.

I can see where you are going with this, 6ix. The Ukrainians should NOT kill their bosses, who happen to be young Russians doing a job for Putin. Instead, do as 6ix would advise, since it worked out so well for him: Ukrainians should stop killing those poor Russians and do the right thing by going into hiding at home until the war is over because pacifism is an irresistible force that evil can never stand up against for very long. If you have to wait for your pacifism to win over the Russians, increase you alcoholic intake because that makes waiting go quicker. Eventually, the Russians will see that you are rewarded for being a drunk pussy. They will offer cigarettes to calm you until the rest of Ukrainians surrender to their fate as you have.

In America, bosses are just like Russian bosses. Both respect soft and compliant employees who smoke, drink and tremble before the bosses' awesomeness. Pacifism is rewarded with pay raises and promotions to easier work and your wife will love you more than ever. But there is something for Pacifists to fight against: the tyranny of Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and his Nazi-Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 6ix has got a thing about Justin Trudeau and Covid-19 vaccines:

"The Freedom Convoy, Exposing Democrat Hypocrisy, Exposing Legacy Media Lies, Crumbling Mandates, The Death of Tyranny via Covid"
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=64782

Oh, Justin... You've made a grave miscalculation...
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64862

The Ukrainians can learn that true bravery is 6ix's brand of bravery at the keyboard. Ukrainians should stop killing Russians, put down the guns, and go to their keyboards.

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AFP News Agency @AFP tweeted
#BREAKING Putin says will not send conscripts or reservists to Ukraine

Which means he will...

Which means they are already there

Translation = Putin will send everything to Ukraine, even kitchen sink

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1500943110477647872

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